by Warp Institute | Mar 17, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech, 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Global Forest Watch by World Resources Institute can now track deforestation shortly after it happens, even on a cloudy day. This new range of capabilities will improve efforts to monitor tropical deforestation. The software is very popular with citizen scientists...
by Warp Institute | Mar 15, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
A certain seaweed, called kelp, is vital to sea health in many ways, e.g as nurseries for many species. In these times, one of the seaweed’s characteristics is highly interesting for humanity – its capability to absorb carbon dioxide from the air as it...
by Warp Institute | Mar 15, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
Kelp is an algae used for biofuels. Unlike say, corn or sugarcane, it doesn’t require either land or added resources like fertilizers to grow. Kelp grows naturally in the ocean and is one of the worlds fastest-growing plants. Besides that, it provides habitat and...
by Warp Institute | Mar 10, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
Plastic pollution being a massive problem isn’t news to anyone. Now a newly published paper tells us that hard plastic polymer can be broken down and recycled with near-perfect efficiency.How? Well, the hard plastic polymer can be manufactured with “break-points” in...
by Warp Institute | Mar 5, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech
Swedish agriculture, where forests are felled and then burned to create new agricultural land, is a major threat to many rainforests. On the one hand, the part of the forest that is cut down disappears, and on the other hand, swidden farming can start forest fires...
